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Last second shopping anyone? If you are sitting at home bored today - or just feel in the mood for some locally -inspired retail therapy - head on over to the very first Houston Underground Arts Market today from 2-6pm. Houston artists, artisans, crafty bastards and threadheads will be selling their wares giving you ample opportunity to buy unique and funky gifts for your friends and/or enemies. Find locally crafted soap, clothing, stained glass, jewelry...

Good morning, Houston. The AP reports on an interesting phenomenon: According to preschoolers, anything tastes better if it's wrapped in McDonald's packaging — even carrots, milk and apple juice. The study was done by Stanford University researcher Tom Robinson, whose subjects were 63 low-income children aged between 3 and 5; Robinson's conclusion was that the kids' perception of foods' taste was "physically altered by the branding." Anyone want to make the argument that marketing...

You don't have to be Willie Nelson or even McDonald's to be so cool as to run biodiesel in your tank. In fact, you can fill up right here in Houston, thanks to Chris Powers, the originator and driving force behind Houston Biodiesel.

Good morning, Houston. So a record high 40,182 Texas high school seniors won't be graduating this spring because they failed all or some of the TAKS test, the standardized exam required to get a high school diploma. Overall, 84 percent of students passed all four parts of the test — math, science, social studies and English — but black and Hispanic students seemed to have the hardest time, with 28 percent of black students...

From Baytown, where nothing odd ever happens, comes a completely serious missing-person report: It seems someone has kidnapped Ronald McDonald from a local restaurant.

The Houston Museum of Natural Science recently purchased an old prison building in Sugar Land and plans to convert it into a satellite museum, including space for classrooms and interactive science exhibits. Sugar Land kids, cross your fingers for a place where you'll be able to report the weather with Neil Frank and another overpriced McDonald's. According to a HMNS representative, the museum will serve as a complement to the George Observatory, which is located nearby in Brazos Bend State Park. The project could be completed as early as spring of 2008, if things go smoothly and funding is easy to come by. Sugar Land council member Michael Schiff expressed his views on this exciting deal:

This week on Craigslist, users were missing each other in clubs and, weirdly, laundry mats and sharing conversations about some really unlikely possibilities, near-death experiences and, interestingly, God. Here is the cream of the crop:

If you're hiking, consider charging up your iPod, as Seattlest finds out that a man lost during a hike was found by the glow of his iPod. That cleverness seems to be devoid in cops who were using police cruiser instant messaging clients - although we imagine IMs "so are you nakie" to be included in cop shows, just for realism. If only the cops were busting the Hummer-driving jerk who made a poor...

So here's a weird story from northeast Harris County overnight: When a wrecker driver repossessed a man's car — or stole it? — he and the car's owner ended up in a high-speed chase that resulted in gunplay and the destruction of a taco stand.

Houston has made a respectable showing in Monopoly’s Here and Now edition. If you’ve been out of the loop, millions of internet users cast votes for months this summer to determine not only which landmarks from 22 major cities would make it onto the new Monopoly board, but the number of votes also determined the position of each city on the board. Houston’s Space Center beat out the Museum District and the Kemah Boardwalk by...

Torontoist visits the site of a new Frank Gehry structure, stalks "the elusive Bahamas streetcar", and watches Tom Green get surgery. Phillyist rejoices in the Phillies' wild card chances, mourns the injuries sustained by Eagles defensive end Jevon Kearse, and goes pirate on our asses. SFist notes that Guns and Roses were in town, that San Franciscans are taking over reality TV, and that the San Francisco Chronicle's skills of original nomenclature could use some...

If it's in season, Houstonist will find a culinary use for it — even mundane mint comes in handy for mojitos and juleps, and it adds a lot to fresh vegetables, free-range chicken and lamb. But where can you go to find organic produce in Houston? We have some ideas: In addition to the tried, true and terribly fabulous Whole Foods Market and Central Market, there are several area farmer's markets to explore. We particularly...

Gov. Rick Perry said he doesn't plan to hold a special election to fill Tom DeLay's seat unless DeLay resigns by the end of the week Meanwhile, DeLay supporters gathered in Sugar Land's fake downtown to heckle Democrat Nick Lampson as he called on DeLay to resign immediately In the Panhandle, several wildfires erupted today, prompting the evacuation of the town of Lefors in Gray County Have a problem with feral cats? Call county animal...

The Guardian Angels, the red-bereted citizen patrol formed in 1979 to make the Bronx safer for residents, may be coming to Houston to patrol Sharpstown, the Chronicle reports. Sharpstown resident Jeff Schmidt called the Angels because he was tired of crime in his neighborhood:

Don't forget on Turkey Day morning that the 56th Annual Washington Mutual Thanksgiving Day Parade will be rolling through downtown Houston. We at Houstonist love a good parade and, though ours may not be the biggest, we're one of the few parades in the country that can be enjoyed while wearing a t-shirt (the National Weather Service is calling for a temperature in the upper 70s in the afternoon. It should be in lower 60s when the parade starts with maybe a few clouds).